Our story

Different by design.

A neighborhood bar with great drinks and bar food.

The Bar on Baldwin sits at 23 N Baldwin St in downtown Bargersville. It is a bar — beer, wine, cocktails and food — built inside a room that got a lot more attention than most bars get.

The idea is simple enough. Make the drinks good, make the plates worth sharing, and make the room somewhere people actually want to sit for an evening rather than somewhere they pass through.

We open at five, Wednesday through Saturday. Happy hour runs the first hour. After that the light drops, the room warms up, and there is no particular reason to leave.

A neighborhood bar with a little more personality.

Black-draped cocktail tables under warm string lights at The Bar on Baldwin, with artwork on deep charcoal walls

The main bar at The Bar on Baldwin: three arched niches backed with gold trellis tile, brass shelves of bottles and cream upholstered bar stools

The room

Charcoal walls, warm light and three arched niches backed in gold trellis tile. Bottles get shelved like objects worth looking at, because they are.

A cognac tufted leather Chesterfield sofa in the lounge at The Bar on Baldwin, with framed artwork and shelves of curiosities

The seating

A cognac Chesterfield you can sink into, cream stools along the bar, small tables you can pull together, and black cocktail tables when the room needs to open up.

Black bench seating on the sidewalk outside The Bar on Baldwin in downtown Bargersville, Indiana

The block

Downtown Bargersville, a few steps of sidewalk and a pair of black benches out front. The gold B on the glass is how you know you have arrived.

Come see the room.

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